The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-22 00:00:00

ES.—No. I. j CORN-LAW FALLACIES, WITH THE ANSWERS. I ' NDOR'S EPISTL. "Mr. O'Connell, I am informed, condescends to answer my letter. It is an attention I scarcely could have expected from a gentleman so fully occupied, and running to and fro in such a variety of di rect i ons. I can on l y offer my small piece of old advice (but I off,r it with all due deference and since -1.4) to thi s energetic friend of Ireland, th e un i que controllerof -the United Parliament. Should our Church, resisting the r eolamations of justice, and the spirit of its institution, be tardy in c om i ng to anchor, and obstinate in refusing to break bulk, let. him throw her upon her beam-ends, apply his ham mer, and knock off the remora wherever he finds it sticking. Some partisans of the Learned Gentleman, I hear, are less courteous to me than he is, generous as they are in attributing to me brilliant things to which I have no pretension. With unreigned respect for the abilities displayed by the principal journals of both partie, I must be excused if, from my natu ral indolence and mere literary habits, I decline all discussion. And it is psrticularly irksome to hold an argument when a heavy man tugs at the other end of it."—Vide Mr. Landor's Letter to O'Connell in the Examiner of yesterday. Dan, for want of something better, Has answered, I'm informed, my letter, Which is an unforseen attention I'm naturally proud to mention ; For how, in reason's name, could I Have e'er expectefi a reply, From one who, like a raree-show, Is always running to and fro ? In his long letter,* frank and free, As Dan's are always apt to be, He gives me much advice, I see ; In turn, I'll give advice to he. t Should old dame Church all thoughts eschew Of doing what she ought to do ; Refuse to cash out of her bank, or Be slow in coming to an anchor; Why, then, I recommend you, Dan— For you're the fittest gentleman-- To throw her on her beam ends (d—n her 0 Strap her tight down, apply sour hammer, And, spite of all her screams and kicking, Give the b—h a precious licking 1 ! Some zealous partizans, I hear, Of your's, Dan, but far less sincere, Charge me, 'mid other sneering flings, With saying many brilliant things:— Tow this is meat unkind, and why? Because it's an atrocious lie I never said to man or wife, A brilliant thing in all my life, Whether in hut, or bower, or ball; And feel convinced I never shall But hold, enough—l'll write no more, For writing's an exceeding bore, And irksome's even the intent To hold a lengthy argum-nt, When scribblers, heavier than a ohale, Keep fiercely tugging at it► tail, Hi-sing the while like any gander ; Your's truly, WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. " Verbosa et grandis epistola venit." JUVENAL. t " The rhyme obliges me to this sometimes, Rings are not more imperative than rhymes." DON JUAN. (Continued from The Sun of Wednesday.) I4l.—At this moment let me congratulate you that the agricultural interest is progressing and not retrograding. It is something to have achieved even this. We are certainly at this time in a better position than we have been for some years, during which I have had the pleasure of dining annually at your market table. During these years we have seen and bewailed much distress, and it is now a matter of no small satisfaction` to know that the condition of the farmer is im proved.—Speech of the Marquis of Chandos at the Aylesbury Market Ordinary. F►om the Bucks Herald of October 20, 1838. _ _ A,—So in spite of the Corn-laws the Agricultural In terest has retrograded, and has been distressed ; and it' it is not so at this moment, it is something to have achieved even this! A strong hint to the agriculturists, as well as the classes who complain of the Corn-laws, that the Corn laws are, from beginning to end, a blunder for the advantage of a few. If men put their own prices on their wares, and cannot prosper after all, can any thing be wanted to prove, that there is some inherent source of retribution, which makes the injury to others impolitic as well as cruel ? 142. —The great topic of the day, which concerns us most newly, is the attempts at a repeal of the Corn Laws ; 1 con sider it my duty, as your representative, unhesitatingly and fully to express my opinion on this and every other subject aff,cting agriculture and its interests, a..d 1 consider it my bounden duty at this time, and before this meeting, to express my firm adherence to my frequently expressed opinion of the fairness of the present Corn-laws to all classes, and of the necessity of their maintenance, as they now exist, if we would preserve the agricultural interest from destruction.—ld. A.—What would the farmers say of the fairness to all classes of a law which taxed home-grown corn for the sake of increasing the sales of the manufacturing. interest ; and what would they think of an interest which declared that nothing but the maintonance of such a tax could preserve it from destruction ? Would not they think, that like ver min in a corn-stack, the sonner it was destroyed the better? But the grand argument with the farmers should be, that they have been retrograding and distressed themselves. 143.—We have had very recent proof of the proper work ing of these Corn-laws (passed during the Duke of Welling ton's Administration). Prices rose to the shilling duty, and the ports opened of themselves, and there was a considerable importation of grain ; bread did not become cheaper, because the corn was in the hands of the dealers in London ; the prices base since fallen, and thus all imputations, so freely cast on the farmer, of being a monopolist, are decidedly and most satis factorilyanswered and refuted.—ld. A.—Who made bread rise to the price it was at before? If the dealers in London did not sell the corn that came into their hands under the shillieg duty, it. was because they doubted whether the demand for corn would not be greater than it is ; and it is doubtful Do the farmers sell corn, when they expect prices will be higher ; and is an}body such a dunce as to say they ought ? 144.—We are no monopoliser; —we did not keep up the p; ice. of corn—corn has been up in price, the ports have been opened, and those who hold the keys of the granaries stored with corn, know alt about the modes of raising prices and keeping them up, but rot we, who have no more to do with it than any other class of her Mejesty's subjects.—/d. A.— Fancy the manufacturers saying all this,—and having all the time a tax on home-grown corn. The charge against the agricu!tural monopolists, is not that they sell their corn at their own time and market, but that they keep corn from coming- into the market at any time at all. A ploughman would know the difference be tween the two. 145.-1 consider, then, that the present graduated system of Corn-laws is admirably adapted to the just protection of the farmer, without allowing him any monopoly or injuring any other classes in society. —ld. A.—Fancy all this applied to the case where the manu facturer had a tax on home-grown corn. And never forget that all this is part of the defence. What must the case be that is so defended? 146 —We must be determined in maintaining the law, as it now stands. Some mly be timid and shaken in their opinion for fear of clamour; but let us, by our firm demeanour, en courage the fearful, unite with the resolute, and say that we will not consent to a repeal or alteration of the Corn-laws, which are the fair and just protection given by the Legislature to the farmer, to which he has a just right, and which, I hope, he will be able to maintain fearlessly and successfully. . A.—What is to be done, if the manufacturers should be equally resolute in saying they will not pay rents out of their pockets any longer ? And what, if they should go to the further step of getting a tax on home-grown corn, and calling it " the fair and just protection given by the Legislature to the manufactures, to which he has a just right, and which he hopes to be able to maintain fearlessly and successfully ?" There is wisdom in finding out before it is too late, that the middle road of justice is the safest for all.—ld. 147.—The Agrieulturi4s have always been tranquil and loyal, and a continuance of the tranquillity will manly depend on the agricultural classes, who will, I know, be always ready to prove their lnyalt), and their determination to preserve good order, and maintain uninjured the institutions of the country in Church and State.—ld. A.—lt appears they do not mean to serve God for naught. Give the mlnufacturers a tax on home-grown corn, for the sake of increasing what must he purchased with their goods abroad, and see ho w th e y w ill k eep the grum bli ng pglieulturists in order in return. But why can not men be tranquil and loyal, without being paid for it at the expense of their neighbours ? And what are institu tions good for, that can only be maintained by paying one half the people out of the pockets of the other ? i 4 —To upho l .d the laws, and support the Sovereign on the Throne in peace and happiness, ever have been, and ever will continue to be, the first principles that the agricultural interest ado t :ts, promotes, aid maintains. —ld A.— I here has been another principle —yes, there has— which was before them all, and that was that the agricul tural interest should snake the laws. Else why did they keep everybody out of Parliament that did not swear to being one of themselves ? 149,—When the Corn-laws Were spin discussed in March last, he rejoiced to see the wealth, respectability, and strength of the House of Commons united in their defvnce, whilst their opponents were men who did net look at the rent rolls, because they had none to look at, for he had never heard where their estates wet e.-31r. Houghton. Id. A.—A poor argument. Suppose th manufacturers were to say, that when the plan was discussed for la3ing a tax on home-grown corn, they had never heard where the factories of their opponents acre. And suppo , e eten that the friends of the Corn-laws were rich and their orvments poor, does that prove any more, than when one man has taken a purse and another lost it ? The same argument might be brought for the Wtst India planters, in support of negro ilavery. 150.—He appealed to the country at large, if it would not have been confi,cation of property to have ropoaled the Corn laws upon the dictates of such men, as it would have ruined him and others, v4o, in the occupation and cultivation of land, had staked their 011.—Id. A.—Would it be confiscation of property to stop the expected profits of rnt'n who had staked their all on the trade of receiving stolen goods? This is enough to show that the mere fact of men having staked 6( it all, doe 3 ❑ot make a concern necessarily one to be encouraged. But there is a mistake from the first. The farmers have not staked their all upon the robbery of their countrymen, though they may think they have. It is related in ancient history, that the crew of a Carthaginian ship which circum navigated Africa, landed on one part of the coast, where they killed two native women who were hairy, and brought their skins to Cartilage. There cannot be the smallest doubt that they killed oran-outangs. Query, were these Carthaginians, in faro conscientice as the learned say, guilty of murder or not ? The lamas seem to be in something like the same case of conscience. 151.—He was not quite prepared to state what he consi der, d would be the fittest tefttionial to yr, sent to one who h a d been their firm friend, who had adsised them in their greatest difficulties, and so aided agriculture by his exertions and his votes, that they had now before them a dawn of better days.—ld. A.—Twenty-three years since the imposition of the Corn-laws, and the agriculturists are only at " the dawn of better days." " Set me down one fur that," as the man says in the play. )52. —The farmers did not desire to interfere with any class. They wished to see nyttintgeture prosper, hand in hand with agriculture He vropos-d the In alai of Mr. Cooke, and suc cess to ounufacture Munk with three times three. and obe cheer more for the manufacturer). —Lord Chandos. Id. A.—Wait till Mr. Cooke has got a tax on home-grown corn, and then see bow many of the agriculturists will Le kept quiet by his drinking " Lord Chandos and success to bgriculture." 153.—Mr. Cooke returned thanks. He never knew any manufacturer who properly regarded his own interest, who did not desire to see agriculture flourish as their manufactures then flourished.—( Cheers. A.—Mr. Cooke muct be an extraorXnary man ; and bale lived in an extraordinary neighbourhood. The proper reward for him would be, that when the Corn-laws are taken off, a special exception should he made in favour of allowing him to maintain as much agriculture as he pleases out of his own pocket. COURT CIRCULAR. tIZ I N OMR, SUN DAY . —The Queen attended Divine Service a morning at St. George's Chapel. Her Majesty came in cl ° B e carriage, accompanied by her Royal Highness the 'leen of. Copley n M Kent ad Lady Littl M. Steton. Lady C, Lady opford, and the Hon. Misses get arrived in a second carriae, ann a third c a arri a .eand wer L e ister the Barunness Lehzen, and the Ladies i Eleonora n •A, ri Constan ce P age t. c "re were alio present the following pet snnages from the --Lord Uxbridge, Viscount Falkland , Lord A. Paget,i.r l i rederick Stoven, Sir Rubert Otway, and the Hon. C. A . Sir he ser v i ce was Boyce in C, the sanctus and r e sponses by ". Andre w Barnard, and the anthem, " God is our ho p e a n d ie rer . l gth," Dr. Greene. The Rev. C. W. Knyvett read the, o i v ice, and the Rev. R. Musgrave and the Rev. Mr. Proby mated at the altar. The 'sermon, from the 7th chap. St. 'eke, 35th verse, was preached by the Rev. Mr. Proby. Mr. .„J• Elvey, Mus. Bac., presided at the organ. for x.esterday morning Visccunt Melbourne took his departure t h i l le Queen honoured the grand promenade on the Terrace by 8 afternoon with her presence. Her Majecty was attended the Ladi es P aget, L or d Alf re d Paget, Lord Uxbridge, Lord Falkland, Sir Robert Otwav, and the }lon. C. A. Murray. 1„ 1 T heir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam- Ve erdertained a distinguished party at dinner last evening, or re* Palace, which included his Highness the Grand Duke 'ticea his Excellency Count Senfft- Naga, &c. Covers Were laid fur fourteen. j The Princ e ss A ugus t a arr i ve d at Cl arence H ouse, S t. R at k"e's at twelve o'clock on Saturday, from her residence, ogtoore Lodge. The Duch ess o f Gl oucester v i s i te d h er y a l Highness. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards took 1 , 4 , 11 airing to Kennington. Th e P r i ncess A ugusta l e f t town in the afternoon, on her return to Frogmore Lodge. Th e Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, e ttne to town on Saturday, and visited the Duchess of Glou eetter, at Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness returned to Kew in the afternoon. Lord P a l merston an d th e Ch ance ll or o f t h e E xchequer /isited Lord Glenelg on Saturday in Great George -street. Sir George Grey had an interview with the Chancello r o f the Exchequer on Saturday in Downing-street. The Fren c h A m b assa d or an d L or d H owar d d e W a ld en hitseted business on Saturday at the Foreign Office. The Americ an , R u ssia n , a n d T ur ki s h A m b assa d ors t ran s- Theetedu on Saturday at the Foreign Department. szt Chancellor of the Exchequer transacted business on i rday a t L or d M e lb ourne ' s o ffi ce. i t i r ,"Patehes were sent off on Saturday evenirg from the Fo- Office for dated A. Woodford, Governor of abraltar. tr.'"espatches, June 2, were received on Saturday at g,,ltidia Board from the Officer commanding at Singapore. ditu!spatehes, dated the 27th of July, were received on Satur- QY in Downing -street, from the Governor of the Cape of ° ° (l Hope, b , le Ea r l an d C ountess o f Wi nc hil sea an d a se l e ct L 1 1.7 are visitin g the Earl and Countess of Delawarr, at Buck `4l.rt, Park. - 11he Earl an d C oun t ess o f E rro l, an d the Ladies e x - " are sojourning at Errol Huse, Aberd,enshirc, but are Cou r t e d to pass some weeks at Brighton on the arrival of the r et „ Th e Earl of Falmouth and Lord Boscawen have 8p E re ed to Tregothan, Truro, from Weymouth. arl Spencer, accompanied by the Hon. Capt. F. fro cer, R. N., has arrived at Althorp Hall, Northampton, nl.l,,Wiseten, Yorkshire. I;',ne Earl and Countess of Ripon and Lord Gode te„Wiave arrived at North Alimms, Herts, where the Noble r filtS taken a mansion for the winter. im p n e Earl and Countess Cowper are now at Pan 'er' in Hertfordshire, where a fashionable party have set o b io. u tow e Earl and Countess of Munster have left their nonresidence i n B e l grave - s t r e e t, in order to pass the winter Tna at B r i ghton. k he Duchess of Marlborough is at present laid up sev ere ill ness at P enr ith. Pi tr i t .rl ': e Marchi oness o f B r eadalbane still remains in as -ate, "'tie, in d e li cate h ea l t h, king the air in a carriage every 11 11 R Is 'in time is fi xe d f or the departure of her Lad) ship for ~ton arti, 4 e Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have 11 1 Hatfield House Herts, from a visit to the Duke of 11gtno, at W a l mer Cattle. le Marqui s o f N or thampton and Lady Mary lk--l'tnn have returned to Castle Ashby, from a tour of the uf C umberland and Westmoreland. Vai l ; J Olin and Lady Conroy have left their seat in Si r ' fo ra t tour of visits in Ireland. Ire D. / Y i lliam and Lady Fremantle and Miss Harvey the ii o - 0 1'ng the autumn at their villa at Englefield, enjoying iety of a few select friends. L 4 Pirl v e j l °n. and Rev. Gerard Wellesley arrived at , ‘ "h l e e fi to '': , use, on Friday evening, and on Saturday afternoon . lear n non a visit to the Hon. and Rev. J. Liddle, at his I le in Essex. tad e , Hon. and Rev. George Neville Grenville and 13: tiarlotte are passing the season at Leamington Spa. Marti ne :v V ernon left town on Saturday morning for the kroParadep Brighton. Lord Vernon goes this day. tUrd o Senfft de Pilasch left Mivart's Hotel on Sa q'eeveeing on a tour of visits. kete _nerd Lord and Lady William Bentinck are ex to, p__lo leave V ernon House , in the Green Park, to-morrow, Alias, there to remain till the meeting of Parliament. a~lvetpart of the Earl of Durham's domestic servants a Pro..__.7 o P riday last f rom Q ue b ec . Th ey b roug h t w i t h t h em T he Ea of the bag gage . o n p n Erl and C ountess o f Li c hfi e ld arr i ve d i n town L ord da Y night from Newmarket. lo g , for H ar visc ount Acheson left to wn S a t ur d a y morn- It /t a i iwa xpected that the Great North of EnOand 1 41 1 ,, 11 T be ready for traffic in the spring of 1840. simul 1411d, s LY with the York and Ivorth Midland, the North Mid th and the Midland Counties' Railwaysthus at once giving 11 3: Tn Pu e b t li c i the north a direct railway communication with "Volis• --Railway Times. tti..41,0:1181 CORN MARKET, OCT. 29.—Our market itti k ie . w as well attended, and a good derna=la for all sort of la hroOld Wheat, 74 5. to 7(34. ; New ditto. 704.t0 7 4 3. ; a• 4 34. to 45x.. Old O ats, 27 a. to 28s. ; Now di tto, 273 ' ; Old parley, 30s. ; Noy pitta, .325, to Ps• (TO EE CONTINUED. A few days ago a. lady was caught shooting near Laon in company with her husband and two other sportsmon, who were furni-lied wilh licenses ; hut as she was not pro vided with this aitihi,rizAtioa, she was condemned to pay a hno of 30 franc: and forfeit her fotilitig-}.;cco, or redeem it by Pling . ,t4e ~ dditivnal suns of 50 franca. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1838. THE GREAT METROPOLIS," AND " SKETCHES IN LONDON." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In tendering you my grateful acknowledgments, which I sincerely do, for the very flattering notice of my n ew work, " Sket c he s in London," which appeared in The Sun of Saturday evening, may I solicit the favour of being allowed to correct a slight misconception as to a matter of fact, into which the Reviewer has fallen. I refer to the sentence in which he says that I have in several instances borrowed from myself, giving in the " Sketches in London," matter which had previously appeared in " The Great Metropolis." This is an error; tart it was an excee&ngly natural one for the Re ' viewer to have fallen into. he having seen some Of the earlier numbers of the " Sketches in London," when they appeared in the form of a monthly publication, without having seen any of the nine recent monthly parts of that work. The error of supposing he had s(•en some portions of the latter work in The Great Metropolis" would be the more readily fallen into, owing to the short interval that elapsed between the ap pearance of the respective works. I have made one or two referonces to " The G eat Metropolis," in my " Sketches in London ;" but I am not conscious of having quoted myself in a single instance, not even to the extent of a solitary sentence. • The subject, indeed, in the two works, were altogether dis similar, with the single exception of one on " Gambling an d Gamblers," and in the very outset of the chapter on th at sub i.,ct in the " Sketches in London," I have distinctly stated that the matter will be altogether different from that which appeared in the chapter on " Gaming [louses" in " The Great Metropolis." Apolagif.ing for thus trespassing on your space at a moment when I knew that space is unusually valuable, I am, S•r, your obedient servant, Tilt AUTHOR OF " SKETCHES IN LONDON," Monday Morning. THE CANADAS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six—As might have been exteated, the receipt by the Earl of Durham of the proceedings in the House of Lords on Lord Brougham's Canadian Indemnity has plunged the affairs of the colony again into embarrassment, as his Lord ship, perceiving the pernicious effect it has already produced on those over whom he has been called to govern, as espe cially manifested in the recent acquittal (by a Canadian Jury) of the murderers of the loyalist " Chartrand," after the most conclusive evidence of their guilt, and a charge from the Chief Justice, stating to the Jury that the law required them to give a verdict (in conformity with the evidence they had heard and the oaths they had taken) which should convict the prisoners —added to the daring and seditious harangue of the prisoner's Counsel in her Majesty's Court of Justice—has caused his Lordship either to tender, or actually resign, his important post. The Times of Thursday, in its editorial article (alluding to Lord Durham's resignation, and the difficulties which it conceives it will cause to the Government) concludes thus—" A pretty muss they have made of it 'I hat a " muss," as the savant editor ob , ,erves, has been made by that fatal instrument, the Bill of Indemnity, is now too palpable to be disguis! d; but who are the parties who ac tually created this "mess?" As,urcdly those who so ardently suip:xted Lord Brougham's opposition to the salutary mdi nahces cf the Earl of Durham, of which every loyal Canadian approved, and many of their moot eniii.ent legal men consi dered to have been as just as they were expedient. The almost daily virulent attacks on the Earl of Durham in the Times, from the time of his being nominated to the government of Canada to the present moment, when, to suit their own party purposes ; they have shifted their ground and altered their ,tone, may have been, and perhaps continues to be, very amusing to the editt.x of that extensively circulated Journal and many of its readers, but let it be remembered that " what is sport to them, is death to IF," or our cause ; for when these attacks are read on the other side of the At lanlic, the effects most likely to be vroduced are, unsettling the minds of the loyal, and emboldening and encouraging the disaffeeted to oppose and set at defiance the measures re sorted to by the person appointed by her Majesty :o administer the government of the colony. Now, that a Governor of a colony possessing such a variety of contending views and in terests as the Canadas should succeed in giving satisfaction to all parties, cannot be reasonably expected ; but all the Cana dian Journals, from Lord Durham's arrival to the latest ac counts from Canada, although differing on certain points, yet manifest a decided confidence in his administration of the Government, and are apprehensive of the most serious con sequences should his Lordship abandon it, which they now much fear he will do. The latest private accounts state that the Constitutionalists are about to demonstrate their feelings by a large public meeting, as they consider the colony to be in a very critical position. London, Oct. 20. 1838. A BRITISH CANADIAN. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT GRANT. (From the Bombay Government Gazette Extraordinary.) WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1838.—General Department, Bombay Castle, July 11, 1838. General orders by the Honourable the Governor in Council. With unfeigned grief the Government is called on to an nounce that it has pleased Almighty God to call to himself the Right Honourable S;r Robert Grant, G.C.H., the Go vernor of this Presidency. This melancholy event occurred at Dapoorie, near Poonah, about five o'clock P.M., on the 9th instant. The report of Mr. Willoughby, the Secretary in attend ance, pa)s so just a tribute to the late Governor's public and private character, that the Government will best do honour to his memory and meet the mournful interest of all classes by publishing that report, in the sentiments of which they tully participate. The virtues of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Grunt sprang front the high aim he took in all his duties to do the will of God. " Dapoorie, July 9, 1838. To L. R. Reid, Esq., Acting Chief Secretary to Govern. ment, Bombay. " Sir—lt is with the deepest concern and regret that it is my painful duty to report, for the information of the Honourable Board, that it has pleased Almighty God to call unto him , Tlf our much esteemed and Excellent Go yernlr, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Grant. " 2. I had sent a letter to the post, forwarding one front Dr. Brown, confirnii , g, in every respect, the favourable in telligence contained in my Report of yesterday respecting the lamented deceased. About an hour befo re hi s d eath he was sitting up i n ex c ellent spirits, and apparently in better health than he had been since he was first taken ill ; when, alas ! as has since been aseertaioed, he was relieved from his sufferings, in consequence, by a post mortem exa mination, of a sudden effusion on the surface of the brain, producing apoplexy. "3. This melancholy event occurred about fire, p an . this day. "4. I am too much overcome by the painful emotions excited by this sad disappointment of the hopes which were entertained of our beloved Governor's recovery, to enlarge on the great loss which the public has sustained by the de mise of this distiiguished and individual. His removal from a scene where he had already effected so much good, and in which, had it pleased God to spare him, this country (to which he had, from the earliest period of his va luable devoted so much of his attention, and to the ad vancement of whose interests lie hes, during the last three years, applied himself with an energy and devotion which none but those in immediate intercourse with him 'can rightly understand or appreciate) would have greatly bene fitted, is deeply to be deplored. "5. Neither am I to dwell upon the exalted virtues that adorned the private life of our respected Governor. His unbounded benevolence, his sincere but unostentatious piety, his enlarged philanthrophy are too well known to require the aid of my feeble pen. I feel myself quite in competent to do justice to his many public and private virtues ; but I feel confident that those with whom he was associated in the government of this presidency, and who have, therefore, had an opportunity of witnessing the eminent ability and zeal with which he discharged the fuections of his high office, and the goodness and purity of his private life, will deeply lament his death, and sincerely s)mpathise with the family on the occasion of this severe dispensation of Providt nee. "G. I must not omit to mention, that Dr. Brown's at• tettons throughout our lamented Governor's illness were unremitting ; and that all that human skill could effect in order to prolong his valuable life was resorted to above officer, aided by Mr. Ducat, the civil surgeon at Poonah. by the " 7. The remains of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Grant will b e i n te rre d t o -m orrow even i ng , a t St. Mary's Church, at Poona!), with all the honour and respect due to his rank and station. " I have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) J. P. WILLOUGHBY, " Secretary i n attendance to the late Right Honour able the Governor." In consequence of this melancholy event, the flog is to be hoisted half-staff hi g h, s a nd so con ti nue un til s un-sett and minut e guns to the num b er of seventeen, the num b e r ap pointed f or the rank of the deceased, to he fired from Horn by's b a t tery on the flag being hoisted. The same ceremon y is to be ob serve d f or the Honourable Comp a ny ' s vessels-of warin the harbour, the minute-guns being taken up on the turmination of those on the garrison, and continue under such arrangements as the superintendent of the Indian navy may direct. The flag to be hoisted half-staff high, and seventeen minute-gun s to be fired at every station subordinate to this Government, on receipt of these orders. It is further directed that mourning be worn by the A. cers of her Majesty's, and the Honourable Company's civil, military, and naval service, at this Presidency, for the period o' six we e k s f rom this date ; an example which he con sid,.rs and expects will he generally followed by all other portions of the community. By order of the Right Hon. the Governor in Council. (Signed) L. R. REED, Acting Chief Secretary. Lady Anne Bere4ord, Lord GeorJe Beresford, the Misses liarrirt and S usan Beresford, intend to remain so m e some time long er i n Albi on-place, Ramsgate. The healtn of the ladles, we are happy to ewe, is mu c h improved. MONEY - AND CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS 02 THIS DAY.) TlMES.—Extensive business has been done to-day in stocks, which is an unusual circumstance on the last day o: the week. Some curious proceedings have taken place at the an• nual meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of Manches ter. One of the Directors, it appears, had been expelled, and in consequence addressed a letter to the Manager, sub sequently sent round in the shape of a circular, giving no tice of his intention to move for the production of books of account and balance-sheets, with a view to verify cer tain accusations made, that the returns exhibited on former occasions were not fa;rly made out, but were purposely exaggerated on the favourable side, and that certain fa vouritism had been shown with respect to money advances on account of shares in one instance. Other charges were made, it seems, reflecting on one in dividual in the management. As reporters were excluded, the account given in the Manchester papers may be in some respects inaccurate, but it may be inferred from the general tenor of what took place, as given from hearsay, that the information thus sought was not granted. The meeting generally seem to have approved of :the conduct of the management, and, so far as that may be taken as evidence, the charges were disproved. The more material feature in the whole case is however the fact that, so far as ap pears, the ex-Director complaining was expelled the Board for insisting , . on his right as Director to inspect whenever he chose the books and accounts of the concern, which, as one responsible for his trust, he considered himself entitled to do, and declining to be held responsible without such privilege. This part of the affair will, however, be best explained by the following resolutions, moved by himself and seconded by a co-Director, but negatived by the Board : " In order to better the condition of the Bank of Man chester, and effectually to raise all the Directors to such a state in the management as to be independent in the ma nagement of any officer under them, it is moved by George Wood, and seconded by Mr. G. R: happen—that all Di rectors of the Bank be shown, when desired, any or all books, bills, papers, or things that may be required to form a sound discretion, on the ground that it is morally wrong that a Director is to be held responsible for any action of his, when he is disabled to get at a right conclusion, by facts bei n g concealed from him." The direction of the Bank of Manchester has generally enjoyed a good repute, and therefore should be the less dis posed to discourage inquiry. An extraordinary general meeting of those unfortunately interested in the Northern and Central Bank of Manchester was lately held, at which the Chairman prefaced the pro ceedings with the singular declaration that he had " the greatest satisfaction in being able to inform the Share holders that the Bank was now out of danger, and that its present circumstances were such as to insure its stability and success." Letters from Lima have been received to the 12th of July, in which it is stated that through the intervention of Admiral Ross the blockade of the Peruvian coast, declared by Chili, had been taken off. It was, in fact, a non-effective blockade. It is fair to state that this empty blockade was proclaimed, as stated on the part of Chili, in retaliation for a paper blockade, more puerile still, of all Chili by Peru. The usual average return of the liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, embracing the period from the 24th of July to the 16th inst., which appeared in last night's Gazelle, gives the following results—viz., that the average theltri(l 7 of the m ont h en di ng the 16th inst. as compared with the aver age of th e mont h end i ng the 24th of July, shows a decrease in the cir cu l at i on of 918,0001., a decrease in the deposits of 2,390 liabilities , o o a f oo l o d / o.e. o c e r a e yn a l s n e d ti thisnh ere t pm b r e oens s et t hn o t c es k ntdh of bullion of 534,0004 Wherefore it appe ars th a t th e d ecrease i n t h e i e n ( g lec th re e 6t as l ei l n total O O quantity i/ .s, 3, anti i inst., as compared with the month ending the 24th of July, in so far as regards the administration of the currency by the Bank of England. The yearly comparison is as follows :—The average of the month ending the 16th instant, as compared with the average of the month ending the 14th of November, 1837, shows an increase in the circulation of 1,008,000/. a de crease in the deposits of 2,091,000/, and an increase in the stock of bullion of 1,119,0001. Wherefore it appears that the decrease in the liabilities is 1,083,000/., and this re presents the decrease in the total -quantity of money in the month ending the 16th instant, as compared with the month ending the 14th of November, 1837, in so far as regards the administration of the currency by the Bank of England. The variations in the stock of bullion have taken place in the following manner and proportions : In the month ending the 6th of February, 1838 as compared with the month ending the 14th of November, 1837, there is an increase of In the month ending the Ist of May, as compared With the month ending the 6th of February, there is a decrease of In the month' ending the 24th of July, as com pared with the month ending the Ist of May, there is an increase of And in the month ending the 16th instant, as com pared with the month ending the 24th of July, there is a decrease of Which leaves upon balance an increase of 1,119,000/. The changes and fluctuations in the circulation will appear from the following statement : In the month ending the 6th of February, 1838, as compared with the month ending the 14th of £ November, 1837, there is an increase of 918,000 In the month ending the Ist of May, as compared with the month ending the 6th of February, th er e is an increase of In the month ending the 24th of July, as com pared with the month ending the I st of May, there is an increase of And in the month end in g the 16th instant, as com pared with the month ending the 24th o f J u l y , _ there is a decrease of 918,000 Which leaves upon balance an increase of 1,008,000/. The following are the changes and.fluctuations that have taken place in the deposits:— In the month ending the 6th of February. 1838 as compared with the month ending the 14th of November. 1837, there is an increase of 822,000 In the month ending the 11th of May, as compared with the month ending the 6th of February there is a decrease of • ......... In the month ending the 24th of July, as compared with the month ending the Ist of May, there is a decrease of ...................... And in the month ending t he 16th instant, as com pared with the month ending the 24th of July, there is a decrease of 2,139,000 Which leaves upon balance a decrease of 2,091.000/. The following are the average amounts of the circulation, the deposits, and the stock of bullion during the period from the 14th of November, 1837, to the 16th inst. inclusive Circulation £l 8.983,750 Deposits 10,505.750 Bullion From the preceding statement it will be seen that the decrease in the stock of bullion as compared with the month of July last is 534,0004, and had the Bank during the same period continued to hold the same unvaried amount of securities to this extent of 534,000/., would there also have been a diminution in the total quantity of money. But the diminution in the quantity of money is is 3,057,0004, and so that while 534,000/, of paper money has been cancelled, by the abstraction of bullion to the to v t r h i a 4 yearlyo as s co° mt comparison. hpias rseaim with same extent TheNo - same amount, there has been a further cancelling of of 252,0004, by a diminution to the same extent in the securities held by the Bank of England, e o i bullion, o fe r O t s e o/ a . l , so an h a l v e h had e then an increase is the f otv i increase , e ßbl n a ea e l s rn e 9, s k :i oi n m roBeo e 3 t mi h 7.a c : remarknqwi se t dauini without y th, p ho, o l f t haerrdesis of al,dwe c o r , e o a o s o e L o i f la l s ,O b B e 3 en ,oo a o dd /. e , d an to d th so e e th o a rr t eo w e l y iil h e y tuhpe the total qua nt it y o f money. But quite the reverse of this ; i w nflux of bullion, there has, on the other hand, been more than 2,000,000/, taken from it by a corresponding diminu tion in th e amount of sec u rities held by the Bank. What a beautiful, s) stem ! and h ow fi ne l y a ll t hi s squares w i t h the evid ence given by the Bank Directors in 1832, and upon the foundation of which they obtained a renewal of the charter ! 372,000 81,000 534,000 291,000 717,000 768,000 6,000 Business Bills,le. c B us ionnC FI RON ICLE.—Consols are a shade lower, hut there a" an improveme n t i n th e mar k e t f or Exchequer be Is in fo t r lie m E on n e g y lis l h eii St o o ff ck at M 9 : 3 le t t o ii , as anit3 not,cxiten to 1- for the Account ; New Three-and-a-HaT per Cents., 101 65 to R 7 Foreign to i - - Prem.; Bank Stnck, •203 i to 204 f ; and India Se E e x u e r l i i t e ie q s u , e g r e ß ne i r ll a s l , ly 6 , s ar t e d l 6 a 7 ng p u re id m . . ;India Bends, Stock, 261 to 262. ) Shares gonerally are unaltered, but there i s a s li g h t im provement in the Birmingham Railway, the old having closed at 84 to 85 prem., and the new nt 241 to 251 prem.; South ampton (old) was la,t marked at 461 to 47 per s h are, ditto (new , 21 i. to 22 p r em. ; Great Western, 13 i to 14 i prem. : L ee d s and Manchester, 16 to 18 prem. ; Biiming barn and Derby, 9 to 8 dis. ; and Eastern, 2 to li dis. British Iron Shares are 91 to 101 per share. The official monthly return of the quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of Engiand for three months ending the 16th instant has been published. The most important circumstance connected with this return is the large decrease in the deposits, which, being to the amount of 713,000/., exhibits the extensive withdrawal of capital which has been required by the increase of general trade. The decrease in the stock of bullion is, however, less by 535,0001. than the decrease in the deposits, and therefore the Bank has apparently sold out Exchequer Bills to a corresponding amount. This is considered to have been imprudent ma nagement at the present time, when the stock of bullion is much higher than the regular proportion to the circulation, and when the Bank could have consequently parted so much more advantageously with the precious metals than with productive securities such as Exchequer Bills. The stock of gold is not only inconveniently large, with refer ence to the interests of the Bank, but on public grounds there have been numerous reasons why bullion and notes should have been paid awayduring the late pressure for money, instead of the produce of Exchequer Bills, the rate of which has decreased the circulation by the large sum of 306,0001., at a time when money, and therefore an in creased circulation, is so very oliViously required. The Bank is, however, almost always in error in its operations, and now that money is more abundant, by the payment of the dividends on the English, and on several of the heavier of the foreign funds, it is generally reported in the City that the Directors are becoming very desirous to ex tend their circulation at a time when it is doubtful whether such an extension would be of any service to general trade. But, apart from the error of having contracted the circula ion during the last month, when money was so required, and when it was totally contrary to the interests of the Bank and the public that the scarcity should have been increased to so great an extent as appears from the pub lished accounts this day, it is not to be denied that there is a large party in the city who, at this time, believe that the proposed extension is now required, and to a much greater extent than appears to be contemplated by the Bank The high price of corn and provisions generally, it is reasoned, renders a great amount of money requisite for carrying on the business of the country ; and the stock of bullion being so excessive both in . England and in France, there would be no danger whatever in increasing the circu lation of the Bank of England, if the reasoning be correct of those who are now advocating the measure as required by the position of trade and commerce. To contract the circu lation would at least be the greatest error which the Bank could commit, and yet there is thought to be no depend ence upon any movement which . the Directors may make, as there is no appearance of system of any description in their management of the Threadneedle-street institution, and chance would seem to preside exclusively over the sup ply of the wants of the mercantile community. The reports received by the areal Western steam-ves sel, respectinc , an extensive deficiency i n th e cro p s o f co tt on in some of the e ' south-western States of America, have caused the prices to advance in Liverpool, and the speculative purchases to be I irge. These reports are, however, very contradictory to all the preceding accounts. The intelli gence wants, therefore, confirmation before the necessity of the late advances can be well perceived. In some degree, however, the destruction of so great a number of bales of cotton by the late fire in Liverpool, may be taken into the account as tending to diminish the stock, and therefore to render probable the sustainment of the late advances in price. POST.—Commercial advices have been received from Buenos Ayres to the end of July, which mention that the blockade of that port continued to be rigidly enforced. Letters have also been received from Paita (Lima), to the 7th of August, announcing that the Peruvians had made a revolutionary movement against the Bolivian party, under General Santa Cruz, and it was expected that the Chilian army would join the rerolutionists early in August. The departments of Libertas Lunia, Huaylois, and Pereira had disbanded the Civil Guard, and declared against the Bolivian Confederation, and the population seem to favour the change as a means of obtaining a better order of things. Generals Nieto and Sierra are said to have caused this movement. Nieto was in the neighbourhood with 1,500 men, and was marching on Lima, being joined by General Vedal, Governor of the department of Huaylois. Santa Cruz was hovering in the neighbourhood of Ariquibo with a very considerable force. From Bombay we have letters to the Ist of August. The price of cotton there, owing to the demand for the China market, and a report that the crop in the interior was suffering for want of rain, had advanced considerably. Freights had receded to 4/. ss. to 4/. 10s. per ton. It appears by the comparative abstract of the Bank re turns, as published in the Gazette of last evening, for the quarter ending on the 16th of October, that that Corpo ration have been carefully and steadily restricting their issues for some weeks, but on balancing their assets against their liabilities, it must be admitted that the affairs of that institution are in a very healthy position. The British Funds continue to be very heavy, and the quotations of last evening have not b, en maintained. HERALD.---By the monthly returns of the quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 24th of July to the 16th of October inclusive, as compared with the former return, we arrive at the following results :—lt appears that this nominally na tional corporation have decreased their circulation on the aggregate of the past three months in the sum of 306,0001. ; the deposits, also, have been diminished in the sum of 713,000/. ; the securities on the average are not so large as at the .last return by the sum of 831,0001., but the stock of bullion has been reduced in the amount of 178,000/. The rest on the aggregate of the present return amounts to 2,766,000/., which shows an improve ment upon that 'important item to the proprietors of 10,000/. The circulation on the year appears to have been increased in the sumpf 643,0001., which to a very great extent is, however, balanced by the fact that the amount of bullion in the coffers of the Bank has been replenished on the aggregate in the sum of 2,581,000/. during that pe riod. That portion of the above returns which applies to the diminution of the circulation securities and the amount of bullion in the hands of the Bank of England fully con firms the opinion which has litely obtained amongst the monetary interests, that the Bank of England have, though irregularly, been restrictin g not only their issues directly, but indirectly, through a limitation of their discount busi ness ; and this, in some measure, accounts for the late fluctuation in the daily market value of the unfunded debt, although there has been a strong impression amongst our monetary circles that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has it in contemplation to reduce the rate of interest upon Ex chequer Bills, as their existing term runs out. SWITZERLAND. At the sitting of the Swiss Diet on the 16th instant, the President caused to be read the following letter, addressed by Cnunt Mole to the Duke de Montebello on the 12th, and which the Ambassador had communicated to him the evening before : " Count Reinhard has delivered to me, with your de snatch of October the 6th, the answer of the Federal Directory to your official note of August 1. The King's Government has never required Switzerland to expel one of her own citizens. France has as great a respect as any other nation for th e i n d epen d ence an d di gn i ty o f her neigh bours, but, at the same time, is resolved to maintain her own honour and repose. We cannot believe that the Con federation will any longer allow one who, by his strange pretension s u p on F rance, h as su ffi c i ent l y prove d he is not a child of Switzerland to abuse ber generous hos , pitality. It is with unfeigned satisfaction that the King's Government has learned the declaration of the Diet— that it is as desirous as the French Government can be that complications of the nature of those which have taken place should not recur. Switzerland must surely feel, without being reminded, of what France owes to herself, if ever by any possibility, similar conjectures can he pro duced. With regard to the demonstrations which the Diet calls hostile, and which have excited in it a painful surprise, the King's GovernMent has never for a moment lost the hope that these measures, suggested by prudence, would never assume any other character. To comprehend these measures, and the feelings with which they were dic tated, the Diet shou!d call to mind the attitude which it had itself assumed, and the refusal with which the debates of the Grand Council threatened France. Circumstance s , however, M. le Duc, are now altered. Louis Nap o l eon quits Switzerland. Nothing therefore, remains, but fur' you to announce to the Vorort, that the corps o f observa tion formed on our eastern frontier is about t o b e dis solved. It was not without emotion that th e Ki ng and his Government read the words which terminate the answer of the Diet. France is still ready, at the very epoch in her his tory, to testify to Switzerland that she is her most faithful ally, her sincerest friend, and the invariable defender of her independence. On her part Switzerland will no doubt carefully watch, that no c ause o f misunderstanding or dis content shall arise hereafte r t o di sturb the good harmony and friendship which have so l ong su b sisted between two countries, and which th ey are b oth so greatly interested in perpetuating. Have the goodness, M. le Due, to read this despatch to the President of the Director, and to leave him a copy of it. "MOLE." After the communication of this letter, it Was unani. , mously voted by the Diet-Ist. That the troops then under arms should be dismissed. 2. That this dismissal should take place as soon as possible. 3. That the Council of War charged with the execution of this measure should communicate t o th e commanders of the troops the satisfac tion of the Diet at the patriotism and discipline shown by the army. 4. That thanks should be addressed to the cantons which had taken the necessary military measures. DEPARTURE OF LOUIS NAPOLEON FROM SWITZER LAND.--CONSTANCE, O CT . 14.—T 0 -d ay t h e ent i re popu lation of Constance remained waiting during two hours at the gate of the town for Prince Napoleon, who was ex pected to pass through it on his departure from Switzer land. He was to have arrived at noon, but two o'clock had struck before he made his appearance. The crowd, so ready to indulge in sinister conjectures, was beginning to accredit the strangest reports, when, at last, the courier of the Prince entered the town, at half-past two, and er w e a: shortly . afterwards followed by the Prince's. eq"l"ethe. Thirty or forty carriages of the principal inhabitptsoo.co neighbourhood accompanied him, and formed a kin d I , teze. The - icitTriageS stopped near the gates; where the Prince bade his friends an affdeting farewell. All eyes were filled with tear , . In the course of a few minutes, the Prince again got into his carriage, and entered Constance amidst an immense crowd. The street leading to the gate was lined on both sides with soldiers. The multitude saluted him with emotion, and the ladies in particular evinced the liveliest grief. The Prince stopped an hour in the house of one of the most respectable inhabitants, where the so. ciety of the town and neighbourhood had assembled to take leave of him. When he went out, the men all accompanied him to his carriage, loading him with testimonies of affec tion. The ladies waved their handkerchiefs from the win dows, and exclamations of grief were heard on all sides. Never did I behold a more melting scene. The young Prince must, independently of his political pretensions, have made himself by his social qualities an immense number of friends in the country. Between Arenenberg and Constance, a distance of about two leagues, all the peasantry of the neighbourhood awaited his passage to take leave of him. The Prince left Con stance at four o'clock, in a 'coupe, drawn by four horses, followed by a single carriage, his baggage having been sent on by a different road. The Prince is a young man of middle size, between twenty-seven and thirty years of age. His side face re sembles that of Napoleon ; his moustaches, however, give it a different cast. His countenance is grave and severe, and, I thought, somewhat melancholy ; his appearance is quite: . prepossessing, and distinguished by that martial air which the French so much like. The Prince will reach London between the 18th and the 20th, for it appears he will stop nowhere on the road, and the Ambassadors of the different Powers have made that a sine qua non condition on legalizing his passports.—Le Si ec l e . _ _ M. de I\fornay, Ambassador at Sweden, is fully expected as the Courrier Francais states, to replace the Duke de Montebello in Switzerland. PORTUGAL. (From a Second Edition of the Morning Past.) The accompanying despatches have reached us per mail of Togas steamer, which arrived at Falmout on Saturday evening ; her dates from Gibraltar 12th, Cadiz, 13th, Lis bon 16th, and from Oporto and Vigo 17th inst. She does not bring an India mail as was expected. The schooner Water Lily arrived off Falmouth on Sa turday morning, from the Mediterranean, fell in with on the 10th inst., 50 miles S.E. by E. off the Rock of Lisbon, her Majesty's ship Hastings, and received on board des patches from the Queen Dowager. LISBON, OCT. 16.—1 send you a correct list of the Se nators and Deputies, as well as of the Substitutes re turned for Portugal and the Island of Madeira ; the anal returns from the Azores Islands have not yet been re ceived, but it is expected that two-thirds of the same will be favourable to the ultra-Liberal party. The numbers stand thus :—Senators, 30 against 25, and 62 Deputies against 47. There is very little doubt that the Chartists will support any reasonable and expedient measure submitted by Ministers, because they clearly see that it would be next to madness for them to attempt to assume the ad ministration of the country at the present moment. Of course the present four Ministers of the Crown form part of both these majorities ; but there can be no doubt that the Cabinet would be left in a minority upon any question where a portion of the Chartists, say the least moderate of them under M. J. A, de Aguiar, should decid e on oting with the ultra September party. We still want the returns from the Azores Islands, and from some other place. There arc many highly respectable men in both Chambers. It appears that the King of the French is to be the god father to the expected Prince or Princess. The Lisbon and Oporto Custom-houses and the Lisbon Excise have yielded the following revenues during the last month of September, viz..— Reals. Mil. Lisbon - 449 Reals. Mil. Oporto 143: 666 - 782 Excike - 871 361: 315 . 102 r ndependent of the further pro ceeds of the Customs for the Junta of Public Credit of ... 29 : 004 - 235 Total . - 337 or £90,000 which is considerably more than what was generally ex pected, and, as the trade of this country generally is falling off at rather a rapid rate, it can only be ascribed to the greater vigilance on the part of the Custom-house officers to prevent smuggling. There is very little doubt that a very considerable smuggliag trade has heretofore been car ried on with Portugal : it was principally from France and Holland. • M. Mareio, the Deputy from Santarem, and Editor of the Government Journal, has addressed a very well-written letter to the various Journals, wherein his appointment to the sinecure office of Director of the Royal Printing-office instead of M. Jose Libcrato had been harshly censured. If the doctrines therein laid down were to be followed by these people, Portugal might indeed be a happy country. He recommends their dismissing from their minds that there ever were any Chartists, Juste-Milieu men, Septembrists, Arsenalists, or other parties, and hopes that they will all rally round the new Constitution. The Journals belonging to all the different political parties demand the immediate meeting of the Cortes, but it is very much doubted whether the Ministers will feel dis posed to yield to this general request before the usual time of meeting, about the 2d of January, and they are, perhaps, consulti ng t h e goo d and welfare of Portugal by acting thus. You will observe that a portion of the revenues is set apart for the Jura.' of Publi c Credit, and I should also state that this establishment receives funds in various other ways, by which means it is enabled to pay, though slowly, the dividends on the internal debt of the country. Admiral Noronha will start almost immediately for An gola. The French frigate La funon arrived on the 10th, in five days from Brest ; her Majesty's ship Tribune re turned yesterday from a ertfze. The Liverpool steamer, with the London Mail, and the Sartorius steamer, in tended for the internal navigation of the Tag-as, arrived era the 12th and 14th, from Falmouth ; and the Tagus, with the Mediterranean Mail, came in late on the 14th, and continues for Vigo and - England at ten a.m. this day. I understand that General Bacon and the Marquis de Aranda, a grandee of Spain, go by her, the former on his way to the north of Spain. One of the Miguelite Colonels of the Evora convention has published a very sensible letter, in order to acquaint the public at large that although the Cortes have inva riably voted the required supplies for their regular pay, it is now upwards of four years since he or his companions have received a farthing. M. Casal Ribeiro, a Miguelite of great note, who lately came from England, is, I understand, on the eve of returning, because he finds the country rather " too hot for him." General Viscount Santa Marta has lately arrived from England. Young Remechido Rachado, passed lately through Porto de el Rey with 23 cavalry-men and 19 horses they had stolen in sundry villages, and we hear from the northern provinces that scarcely a day passes without one or more robberies being perpetrated. The two Evora National Guards who shot Baioa have bad 300,000 reals each given to them. M. Quadros, and the other individuals who were ac cused of participating in the riots of the 14th of June, were tried yesterday ; but, in order to protect the witnesses from being insulted by the mob, no less than 3.50 men were placed under arms in the neighbourhood of the Cardaes de Jesus, where the trial took place. I understand that they were ac quitted, but I am not quite sure of it. Exchange on London, 54i ; Five per Cents., Internal Debt, 7.5 ; Exchange, paper money, 52 per cent. dip.. The Tagus is getting under weigh. , ~..----- BRISTOL ZUGAR MARKET, OCT. 19.—The market is flat and heavy, and very little selling. The mer chants have submitted to a decline of from Is. to 25., and there is every prospect that they must yield a still further conces sion, which will be hastened by the fact that the refiners are alive to the state of the market, and are slackening work._ Bristol Mercury. DESTRUCTIVE F IRE IN PRINTING -HOUSE SQUARE.—About half-past seven o'clock on Saturday evening a fire broke out in Printing-house-square (near the printing office of the Times newspaper), in the house No. 2, situated in the south. eastern angle of the square, used as workshops in the occupation of Mr. M'Lauchlan, a carver, gilder, and look ing-glass manufacturer, residing at No. 3, next door. The fire was first discovered in the back rooms of the upper, story, and the flames extended thence with the greatest, rapidity to the floor beneath, and from thence to the upper part of the residence of M . M`LauchlEn, wh'elt was also used as a work shop. The first engine that arrived was a small one belong ing to St. Anne, Blackfriars, which was closely followed b y a similar one from the Fdrringdon street station of the hose 0 br igade, the and a larger one belonging to the parish. The e case of No. 3, two former were instantly conducted up the e re st being no lack of s e o andon in the arriving, lane, a a n n e d and the engines speedily got into play water. The large engines of the the being judiciously placed, bath in immense stream of water was , in the rear of Earl-street. an ova! which having about a quar ter by the falling in of the kept pouring upon !he,.brigade, q t squar e r lock so far subdued as to allay s by nine o c roof of No. 2, wa ter past eight o'clock been , . d• ,r, further. The engines , w ere, play upon the ruins until a late hour. all fear of their . exten n.,, . however, kept nearly totally destroyed, and the house of mac damaged by water and removal.. ‘ h • /b ee , on the other side, fortunately escaped any The Times o Ar N f o r s. R 2 . a ss l l 3 , N w . c o r i . e n 1, serious damage . The stables of Mr. Smith, f rom w hi c h the horses were immediately removed, also escaped damage, ex cept from vater, as also his residence, which is in the rear o f Mr. Russell's premises. The buildings and property are m ostly insured. STEAM FUEL.— Experiments have been tried in mixing pitch with coal fur steam navigation, and it is said to have answered most effectually,—Litervy Gazette.